Claim this poor orphaned book ^_^

13 Oct 2010 by maki

Remember back in August, when we did a week of Back To School articles and giveaways? The last giveaway, which received the most entries/comments by far, was for my book. Unfortunately, despite repeated attempts to contact the winner, it’s gone unclaimed. The poor book feels very sad and unwanted, like Anne Shirley when she arrived at Green Gables the first time.

So…I’ve decided to have another drawing! What’s up for grabs, as before: a signed copy of The Just Bento Cookbook. To enter, leave a comment to this post. Email subscribers: you must click through to the site and leave a comment, not reply by email; I will discard all email replies!.

Be sure to put a valid email address where you can be reached in the appropriate text box (the one that says “E-mail”). In the subject of the comment, tell us where you’re from (town/state/country - nothing too specific!) To make it a bit more fun, answer this question too: If you were going to be executed the next day, what would your last meal be?

Your comment/entry must be in before 23:59:59 CET (just before midnight of Friday, October 15, 2010. That’s right, you have only 2 days to enter! In addition, you must claim your prize before Monday, October 17 if you want your signed copy ASAP, because I’m leaving home for a few weeks then. (If I don’t hear back from the winner before Monday, she or he will have to wait until December for me to send out the book.) I’ll announce the winner soon after midnight CET on Saturday, October 16 - which will be after 6pm Eastern time/3pm Pacific time on Friday. This one will go fast! Good luck!

(The winner has been announced! Thank you to everyone who participated - sorry if you didn’t win ^_^;)

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If you were going to be executed the next day, what would your last meal be?
I have no doubt: Italian style potato flan! It's basically a dish of a base layer of mashed potatoes mixed with an egg and flavoured with nutmeg, then a layer of ham, a layer of mozzarella, another layer of the potato mix on top, and then sprinkled with breadcrumbs and cooked in the oven till the mozzarella is all melted and the top is nicely brown and crusty *_* my mouth waters at the mere thought of it!
And since it's pretty good cold too, I often bake it in single portion dishes and carry it to work as lunch :)

If you were going to be executed the next day, what would your last meal be?

You know i really would like say a large bento box with a single serving of every food in the world. That way i wouldnt miss all the great foods. But my first pick from that box (if it didnt melt) would be fried ice cream(<3xforever) http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oD06OmQHK1A/TFb3uG9ns8I/AAAAAAAAADM/AHHpfWpuVS... and then i would next eat breaded veil with alfredo in white sauce with a side of fried eggplant and then some melon bread because i never had that before.

If those things could fit in bento box that would be my dreams come true. Why in a bento box you ask? because bento boxes seem really awesome and it would be my first to experience a box of delicious goodies!

I think I'll go with fugu for my last meal, because I'll probably never try it otherwise for fear of getting the one tainted piece-- but if I'm destined to death anyway, who cares? Oh, and an avocado boba tea, because I love those things.

If I were going to be executed tomorrow, I would eat all the sukiyaki I possibly could! I really love sukiyaki, and there's a wonderful Japanese place in my town called Sushi Zanmai that does their version wonderfully! It also a lot of fun to do, like fondue, so I would have all my friends get together and make some final memories, too.

Just received my copy from Bento&Co actually. And I have to say, I LOVE it! I really enjoy your philosophy about food in general and especially bentos. Love the easy to do recipes and the great ideas for every day meals!

If I was executed tomorrow..... I think I would eat as many "Pförtchen" (spehre formed pancake like little things, eaten with "Ampfelmuß", I cannot finde the right word in english) as I possibly could. Or a long meal of many dishes to expande the remaining time :) .

If I was going to be executed the next day, there is nowhere else I would rather be than home. And so,
my last meal would be my Grandma's home cooked meal of stir fried chinese vege, steamed free range chicken (with pounded ginger, shallot oil and soy sauce), lotus root soup and not forgetting a glorious bowl of white rice.

I'm dying to own this book, been looking over it, checking the pre-order prices, many times at amazon and my local bookstores in Malaysia. It's too expensive to own the book. Luckily when I check again here today, there's this 'Claim this poor orphaned book' Yeh, I may have a chance to own it! I live in Selangor, Malaysia. I'm just starting to learn cooking some Japanese food and trying making bento for my son. If this will be my last meal, I just want my daily type of meal, a fish dish, rice, vegetables and soup..Nothing grand, who can really enjoy their last meal huh ? I hope there'll be more simple Japanese bento recipes that don't have to use too many Japanese ingredients, or if possible there'll be substitutes for it. Japanese ingredients are very expensive and difficult to get here. Thanks

If I was to be executed tomorrow I would want to eat a traditional thanksgiving dinner like when I was little. Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls and my grandma's red potatoes and peas in cream sauce. Definately not your traditional bento fare but it's something I look forward to all year long and brings back memories.

If I were executed tomorrow, I would have a final meal starting with seaweed salad and tuna sashimi, and then a GIANT bowl of homemade soup made from dashi stock with vegetables, udon noodles and homemade wontons, and then finish it off with a big chocolate fondant cake. Hopefully, if there was enough time left for coffee, I would treat everyone including the executioner with a plate of Maki's black seasame cookies with matcha icing. Yum. Best last day of my life :)

If I were to be executed the next day, I would want 'pita' as my last meal. It's fresh cheese wrapped in pastry and baked. But it would have to be made by one specific person, because she's the only one I know that can make it the right way.

As an Italian and a great fan of Porcini mushrooms, my last meal would surely be in fact Porcini lasagna and beef stewed with Porcini... but as far as I'm totally in love with japanese food I would ask for a good ramen bowl with pork broth and tonkotsu+shimeji mushrooms. :)

It's tough to say what I'd pick for a last meal, since I'd probably feel differently about it depending on the circumstances. I know it would be a big one, though, and it would include all of my favorite foods. To drink I'd have cherry Coke, Calpico, blueberry tea and a pumpkin spice cappuccino. I'd have mashed potatoes and gravy, several different kinds of BBQ (including eel and fall-off-the-bone pork rib), ramen with a slice of ham and cooked egg, a Whopper, taiyaki with custard filling, chicken quesadilla, dumplings and a really good steak. For dessert I'd have mochi ice cream, tiramisu, a Dr. Pepper float, and a sample of every ice cream Jeni's has to offer along with some strawbery daifuku and a nice, hot funnelcake with powdered suggar and cotton candy.

My last meal would definitely chicken katsu curry, from a local Japanese restaurant in North-east London. I haven't had their food in over 6 months since I moved away from there, and it would make my soul happy if I could have the chickeny, spicy bites of goodness one more time, with some thick udon noodles drenched in the same curry sauce. Oh god...

I would eat a full Christmas meal I eat every christmas! Ham, a great sauce for it, salmon and different kinds of Finnish Christmas meals of which names I don't know in english ^^; And a box full of fine choclates! yummy ♥

If I was going to be executed tomorrow, I would want to eat TGIF fried mac and cheese as starter, followed by Chili's fajita and mashed potato. To close it, my mom's fruit pie (It's the best in the world!) :D

Let, me see, the last meal. My grandma's roasted potatoes, vegetable and fried turkey stakes, with gallons of ice cream for desert. Nothing special, but regarding that I hadn't been able to eat my grandmother's wonderful meals, I miss it.

some horse steak tartar, pea soup with some sour creme, horse steak with mashed potatoes and some sugar peas, tomatoe and feta salad and potatoe salad, to drink the sweetest non desert white wine that can be found, and for dessert a big piece of my mom's walnut cake and a big glass of water to wash it all down.

This is probably a really lame answer, but I think my last meal before execution would have to be Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings and 3 different pies for dessert (pumpkin, apple, cherry). Right now I'm going on year three now without a full-blown, delicious, home-cooked, Thanksgiving meal and I'm really, really longing for it. I'm talking about roast turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, candied yams, a honey-roasted ham-- you know the kind with the sweet and crunchy layer on top! -- and some tasty bread rolls. Let's not forget the cranberry sauce either, I love that stuff.

Hmmm... I'd go for a table with all my favourite foods/drinks to sample from each one : I would probably be sick as hell the day after, but hey... who cares when you're being executed right? :) So here it goes...
tom yam soup, thai green curry with jasmin rice, spicy yam nua beef salad, hiyayakko (cold tofu), Belgian chocolates (my homecountry), salted chips, pommes frites with Flemish stew, bükme (Turkish pastry with lentils and potatoes inside), raki, Polish vodka with grapefruit juice, fresh pistolets with farmers butter and chocolatepaste, green olives, tiramisu, oden stew with tofu, curryworst-special from the fritterie, Duvel-beer, strong Turkish coffee, falafel with garlic sauce,.... needless to say, all this in no particular order :)
If it should come to this, I'm sure I can't wait to be executed :)
Jan (Belgium)

Last meal? Such a difficult question because there are so many delicious meals! I guess it would be a very long meal because I would want a little of so many things. Definitely a bit of sushi, a good vegetarian burrito, salmon fettuccine Alfredo with garlic cheese bread and at least a bit of chocolate cheese cake. But I don't plan on doing anything that would require having a last meal. Thank goodness, would be too hard to decide.